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Rocky had some appeal because of its innocent chutzpah. Anyone who had the nerve to make such a corny movie deserved to succeed. Stallone is like a child who, upon receiving a piece of candy for performing some cute and harmless stunt, promptly performs the trick all over again. Only the second time the act has no spontaneity, and becomes mildly annoying. Let's hope Stallone doesn't try it a third time...
...Louis, like any of us, lives not by humility alone. She delights in discussing her little-used but favorite stunt--a hot-dogging, over-the-head bicycle kick that almost gave her a wild goal against Princeton. She also likes the recognition she gets because of her accomplishments...
...award was the result of a Hearst stunt. A young New York girl was dying of a fierce disease and had "seven hours to live" (this uncanny precision - seven hours, not six or eight - was quintessential Hearst journalism). Penicillin would save her, but the Army held the existing supply of the wonder drug. Paul phoned the Surgeon General, talked him into releasing the antibiotic, and had it rushed to the hospital in a Journal-American radio car. He beat death by three hours, and the Times by a good deal more...
...doubt better-material to choose from. He has ordered up roughly 40 pilots since taking over the network in June. In the meantime, explains Dancer Fitzgerald Sample's senior vice president Lou Dor kin, "Silverman has to work with what he's got. He has to stunt like crazy and cause as much confusion as possible until his own series are ready to go into place...
Mercouri plays a fading film star who returns to her native Greece to appear in Medea and also in a TV film about her preparation for the role. As a publicity stunt she arranges to visit, in jail, an American woman (Ellen Burstyn) who, like Medea, has committed infanticide. What with a demanding rehearsal schedule and the raging and pouting she inflicts on her director and her entourage, you would think the Mercouri character would have no time left to feel guilty about exploiting the half-mad murderess, but she does. Repeatedly she goes back into the prison...